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AB 51 bans mandatory employment arbitration agreements. (Part 2 of a four-part series.) AB 51, which was signed into law by Gov. Gavin Newsom (D) on October 10, adds a new Section 432.6(a) to the California Labor Code, banning any agreement to...By: Constangy, Brooks, Smith & Prophete, LLP

On October 10, 2019, Governor Gavin Newsom signed AB 673 into law, expanding an employee’s right to collect penalties for an employer’s failure to timely pay wages. Prior to the enactment of AB 673, Labor Code section 210 provided a penalty that was...By: Jackson Lewis P.C.

A California state appellate court has ruled that the correct rate for paying meal and rest period premiums is one hour of pay at an employee’s base hourly rate, not the regular rate of pay used for calculating overtime wages. This is the first...By: Jackson Lewis P.C.

As detailed in a prior Alert, the Westchester County Board of Legislators passed a stand-alone safe leave law in May 2019 that provides employees who are victims of domestic violence or human trafficking with 40 hours of paid safe leave time...By: Fox Rothschild LLP

In today’s edition of Daily Compliance News: How should you handle whistleblower allegations? (FT) “What race are you”? (NYT) Vale CEO called whistleblower ‘a cancer’. (WSJ) FACEBOOK goes all caps. Is it just making online noise? (Washington Post)...By: Thomas Fox

Sponsorship Brochure for That 401(k) Conference at Busch Stadium in St. Louis, MO on May 8, 2020...By: Ary Rosenbaum

California recently approved Assembly Bill 1554, adding a flexible spending account notice requirement to § 2810.7 of the California Labor Code. The new law, which takes effect January 1, 2020, states......By: Snell & Wilmer

President Trump signed an Executive Order on October 31, 2019, revoking “Executive Order 13495 of January 30, 2009 (Nondisplacement of Qualified Workers Under Service Contracts), which requires that successor Federal contractors in certain...By: Bradley Arant Boult Cummings LLP

Over the past five years, Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) estimates that $20.7 billion in payments have been made to providers and suppliers involved in affiliations that present undue risk of fraud, waste, and abuse. Effective...By: Shumaker, Loop & Kendrick, LLP

On October 9, 2019, the Second Appellate District of the California Court of Appeal issued a decision clarifying the rate of pay at which an employer must pay meal period, rest break, and recovery period premiums. More specifically, the appellate...By: Sheppard Mullin Richter & Hampton LLP